Jugaad

An Indian soft-innovation methodology of creative thinking aimed at optimizing scarce resources

 

  

 
 

Hindu people who gain the highest through knowledge have enormous intellectual and conceptual powers. The Indian Jugaad is a respected methodology of optimizing the resources. It is a survival tactic that expresses a need to do what needs to be done, without regard to what is conventionally supposed to be possible. This meaning is often used to signify creativity to utilize the limited resources to the maximum extent.

  

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Examples of Soft Innovation, including Jugaad

 

  

 
   

 

  

 

 
 

Jugaad is used for solutions that bend rules, or a resource that can be used as such, or a person who can solve a complicated issue. It is used as much to describe enterprising street mechanics as for political fixers. Farmers, traders, and housewives also use their jugaad to achieve more with the limited resources available to them.

  

 
 

Jugaad is increasingly accepted as a management technique and is recognized all over the world as an acceptable form of frugal engineering at peak in India.

Companies in India are adopting Jugaad as a practice to reduce research and development costs.

Jugaad also applies to any kind of creative and out of the box thinking or life hacking, which maximizes resources for a company and its stakeholders.

  

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The Bhagavad Gita is a message addressed to each and every human individual to help him or her to solve the vexing problem of overcoming the present and progressing towards a bright future.

The first lesson of the Indian management science is inspired by Gita. It says managers must choose wisely and utilize scarce resources optimally.

  

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Rajendra Jagdale, India

Challenge yourself of you want to achieve something great.

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For ideas to come, ask yourself:

Can I achieve more with these meager resources?

Can I do things differently and smarter?

Is there a shortcut to achieve the same result?”